STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1072
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2021
RE: S.B. No. 756
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2021
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 756, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Authorize
each county to adopt ordinances to enforce state laws relating to the
designation of parking spaces for electric vehicles, including the
establishment of penalties;
(2) Clarify that certain enforcement officers may
enter private property to enforce electric vehicle parking space requirements;
(3) Require new electric
vehicle charging systems installed pursuant to the electric vehicle charging
system requirement to be at least Level 2 and network capable; and
(4) Change electric vehicle charging equipped parking requirements per one hundred stalls from one stall by 2012 to five stalls by 2025 and ten stalls by 2030.
Your Committee
received testimony in support of this measure from the Department
of Transportation; Hawaii State Energy Office; Office of Climate Change,
Sustainability and Resiliency for the City and County of Honolulu; Life of the
Land; We Are One, Inc.; Blue Planet Foundation; Tesla, Inc.; Ulupono
Initiative; Our Revolution Hawaii; Kauai Climate Action Coalition;
350Hawaii.org; Climate Protectors Hawaii; Hawaii Electric Vehicle Association;
Big Island Electric Vehicle Association; Environmental Caucus of the Democratic
Party of Hawai‘i; Hawaiian Electric Company; Clean the Pacific; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received testimony in
opposition to this measure from the Building Owners and Managers Association of
Hawaii, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, and Chamber of Commerce Hawaii. Your Committee received comments on this
measure from the Department of Design and Construction for the City and County
of Honolulu.
Your Committee finds that zero-emission
vehicles, such as electric vehicles, play an integral role in Hawaii's clean
energy future. With the continued growth
of electric vehicle adoption by consumers, this measure ensures the
availability of the necessary infrastructure to support electric vehicle use.
Your Committee notes the need to further
consider adding flood zone exemptions in this measure and believes this issue
merits further discussion by your Committee on Consumer Protection &
Commerce.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Restoring language that requires at least one parking space for electric vehicles for places of public accommodations with at least one hundred parking spaces;
(2) Deleting language that would have changed the electric vehicle
charging equipped parking requirements per one hundred stalls to ten stalls by
2030;
(3) Making
the requirement that new electric vehicle charging systems be at least Level 2
and network capable effective on January 1, 2022;
(4) Inserting
language that establishes a subaccount in the Public Utilities Commission
Special Fund for the purposes of the Electric Vehicle Charging System Rebate Program
and reallocates a portion of the Environmental Response, Energy, and Food
Security Tax to be deposited into the subaccount;
(5) Inserting
language that appropriates $300,000 out of the Energy Security Special Fund for
fiscal year 2021-2022 to be deposited into the electric vehicle charging system
subaccount within the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund;
(6) Changing
the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and
(7) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 756, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 756, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,
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____________________________ NICOLE E. LOWEN, Chair |
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